1977年のグラミー賞では、スティーヴィー・ワンダーが4つの異なる部門で受賞し、グラミー賞の総数は14となった。ワンダーは最優秀男性ポップ歌手、最優秀男性R&B歌手、最優秀プロデューサーに選ばれ、彼のアルバム『Songs in the Key of Life』は1976年のトップアルバムに選ばれた。リンダ・ロンシュタットは最優秀女性歌手賞を受賞した。[ 63 ]
The Protection of Diplomats Convention (officially the "United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons, Including Diplomatic Agents") came into effect after being ratified by 22 nations.
In the U.S., a maintenance man was killed while repairing a blade in a large industrial blender at the Food-Maker, Inc. plant in San Diego when another employee tripped and fell against the starter button. Richard Wesson, 49, died of multiple injuries and internal bleeding.[69]
Henry Jordan, 42, American pro football player and NFL defensive tackle from 1957 to 1969, died while jogging in Milwaukee. He would be posthumously inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985.
John Hubley, 62, American film animator and director known for creating the cartoon character Mr. Magoo, and winner of three Academy Awards, died during heart surgery.[70]
Bertram Wolfe, 81, American Communist and political scholar, died from burns sustained after accidentally setting his bathrobe on fire.
February 22, 1977 (Tuesday)
In the British House of Commons, prospects of approval of a law to give Scotland and Wales limited home rule were ended by a filibuster. In an attempt by the governing Labour Party to end delay tactics and get a vote from the members, a "guillotine motion" (similar to a resolution of cloture in the U.S.) failed, with 283 votes in favor and 312 against, when 35 Labour members either abstained or voted against the motion.[71]
Mohammed Fadel, President of Damascus University in Syria, was shot and killed by an assassin as he arrived for work.[71]
Rhodesia's white prime minister, Ian Smith, leader of a racial minority government where whites received preferential treatment under the law despite being less than 5% of the population (275,000 out of 6,275,000), proposed his own transition to black majority rule. Smith proposed that "black Rhodesians" would be allowed to become military officers, be employed in government at all levels and to buy businesses in commercial areas, as well as being allowed to drink alcohol in white areas after 7:00 in the evening. Under Smith's plan, private schools and hospitals institutions would not be restricted from integrating, but state-owned schools would remain segregated, and black residents would be limited to buying farmland in only one-third of the areas reserved for white people.[72]
Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, became the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador.[73] Romero would be assassinated three years later during Mass by a right-wing Salvadoran death squad.
↑ Amadou Diallo, La mort de Diallo Telli, 1er secretaire général de l'OUA Archived 2022-07-25 at the Wayback Machine ( The Death of Diallo Telli, 初代 OAU 事務総長 ) (Editions Karthala, 1983)